词条 | Kaari Upson |
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Early life and educationUpson was born in San Bernardino, CA, in 1972. She attended California Institute of Arts as an undergraduate in 2003. She received her BFA in 2004 and her MFA in 2007. She began The Larry Project as a student, and exhibited a portion of the work as her MFA thesis.[5] The Larry ProjectIn 2003, after trespassing onto an abandoned property across the street from her parents' home in San Bernardino, Upson discovered boxes of ephemera: letters, legal documents, diaries, photographs, all belonging to one man who she later dubbed 'Larry.'[4][5][6][7][10] She kept the boxes for a year, unsure of what to do with them, but, in 2004, the house mysteriously burnt down, and she decided to begin tracing the life of 'Larry' through her artwork.[6] For the next seven years, she produced an ongoing body of work, The Larry Project, creating a narrative through the faulty memory of the documents and her own fantasies. The work exists in a variety of mediums: drawing, sculpture, video, and performance.[5] She discovered that 'Larry' styled himself after Hugh Hefner and partied at the Playboy Mansion; he also was involved in a few different self-help programs, including Jungian analysis, chakra cleansing, Gestalt Therapy, and Erhard Seminars Training.[7][8] His hyper-masculine "Ladies' Man" persona became a site of exploration for Upson's own performances of gender, power, and desire.[5] In 2008, Upson made a life-size doll version of 'Larry,' that she enacted different scenes with, switching roles as his daughter, mother, and sexual partner.[9][6] In 2008, Upson also made "The Grotto," a fiberglass replica of the infamous cave-like swimming pool at the Playboy Mansion.[4] Inside the sculpture, Upson projected videos of herself, wearing silicon prostheses of breasts and genitalia, straddling the 'Larry' doll.[6] In 2009, Upson cast the 'Larry' doll into charcoal, and used the form to make drawings against the gallery wall, slowly destroying the charcoal form in the process.[10] In 2011, Upson cast architectural copies of 'Larry's' former house into soft pink latex, as well as other objects, like a chandelier and an iron gate.[6] In "Mirrored Staircase Inversion (San Bernadino)" (2011), Upson went back to the site of the original house, which was now an empty dirt lot. There, she dug into the ground an inverted replica of the twin staircases that had led into 'Larry's' bedroom, and cast the giant hole in latex, creating a skin of the non-existent house.[6][10] Themes of twinning, mirror images, and negative copies emerge throughout the project, as Upson drew on the pervasive fantasy of the twin Playboy Bunnies and the discovery of her own reflection in a complete stranger.[8] [5][4] ExhibitionsSolo exhibitions[3]
Selected group exhibitions[3]
References1. ^1 {{cite web|last1=Subotnick|first1=Ali|title=Hammer Projects: Kaari Upson|url=https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2007/hammer-projects-kaari-upson/|website=Hammer Museum|accessdate=15 June 2016}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Upson, Kaari}}2. ^{{cite web|title=Collection: Kaari Upson|url=http://www.moca.org/artist/kaari-upson|website=The Museum of Contemporary Art|accessdate=23 June 2016}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite web|title=Kaari Upson|url=http://www.massimodecarlo.com/artists/view/134|website=Massimo De Carlo|accessdate=16 June 2016}} 4. ^1 2 3 {{cite book|last1=Subotnick|first1=Ali|title=Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A.|date=25 February 2009|publisher=Hammer Museum|isbn=978-0943739366|pages=78-90}} 5. ^1 2 3 {{cite book|last1=Upson|first1=Kaari|editor1-last=Marta|editor1-first=Karen|title=Kaari Upson: The House|date=28 April 2015|publisher=UCCA/Keonig Books|isbn=978-3863356248}} 6. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite news|last1=Griffin|first1=Jonathan|title=Life Study|url=http://www.frieze.com/article/life-study|accessdate=15 June 2016|work=Frieze Magazine|issue=145|date=March 2012}} 7. ^1 {{cite news|last1=Mizota|first1=Sharon|title=L.A.'s Artist Iconoclasts|url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-visionary8-2009mar08-story.html|accessdate=23 June 2016|publisher=The Los Angeles Times|date=8 March 2009}} 8. ^1 {{cite news|last1=Campagnola|first1=Sonia|title=Larry's House|url=http://moussemagazine.it/articolo.mm?id=504|accessdate=15 June 2016|work=Mousse Magazine|issue=21|date=2009}} 9. ^1 2 {{cite journal|last1=Holte|first1=Michael Ned Holte|title=Kaari Upson|journal=Artforum|date=February 2008|url=https://artforum.com/inprint/issue=200802&id=42283|accessdate=23 June 2016}} 10. ^1 {{cite news|last1=Soto|first1=Paul|title=Thinking Inside the Box: Q+A With Kaari Upson|url=http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/interviews/kaari-upson-overduin-kite/|accessdate=15 June 2016|work=Art In America|date=November 2011}} 11. ^1 {{cite journal|last1=Wilson|first1=Michael|title=Kaari Upson|journal=Artforum|date=February 2010|url=https://artforum.com/inprint/issue=201002&id=40130|accessdate=23 June 2016}} 5 : Artists from California|People from San Bernardino, California|California Institute of the Arts alumni|1972 births|Living people |
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